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Gmail for Android should be one of the best email apps on the platform. However, I tried using it in 2024, and it is actually terrible.

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[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Gmail app in particular has been basically abandoned for the last 4+ major android versions. I only really use it for my work email on a Shelter profile since it's just to handle urgent stuff if I'm afk. But even that minimal use has me about ready to install k-9 on the work profile too.

Maybe my memory is bring foiled by nostalgia, but i honestly remember the Gmail Inbox app being better than the current Gmail app. Clearly google can output a good UI, they just 100% choose not to.

The built-in email app for an OS doesnt have to be amazing, but it at least needs to be reasonable. iOS Mail isn't amazing either, but compared to the Gmail app it's a feature-packed power user tool.

[–] porl@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Inbox was by far the best thing Google have done with email. Still waiting on features they had unique to that app.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

They are blind and lost. Nest hasn't had a feature update since they acquired them 10 years ago. Their thermostats don't even have a "its freezing outside and the air conditioner shouldn't run" feature. Fi rots on the vine. Their camera service is terrible and they just raised the rates. Garbage company anymore.

[–] bradboimler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

i honestly remember the Gmail Inbox app being better than the current Gmail app

It absolutely was

[–] 8Bitz0@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

I believe the iOS Mail app is getting a UI redesign before the end of the year.